Spiral Quiz Reconstruction Day 3

Hiram Rhodes Revels is significant to American history because he -

• symbolized the end of the Civil War

• helped grow the popularity of the Republican party in the South

• was the first African American to serve as a member of the Senate

• championed the rights of Hispanic Americans in state politics

Match the following

• 1st Amendment

• Worked to improve prison conditions and create facilities for the mentally ill

• I

• Freedom of Religion (church/mosque), freedom of speech (criticize), freedom of press (media)

• Federalists

• Irish came to the U.S. because of potato famine, worked in factories and on the Transcontinental Railroad

• Dorothea Dix

• Supported the Constitution; beleived it created a more stable Uion

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) 13th Amendment

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(b) 14th Amendment

• Plantations could no longer use slave labor

• Freedmen could serve on juries

• African Americans could move anywhere

• Overturned the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision

What is the "great act" referred to by Charles Sumner in the excerpt?

• The Senate's readmission of the last Confederate state

• The addition of Hiram Rhodes Revels to the U.S. Senate

• The Senate's acquittal of President Andrew Johnson

• The election of the first woman to the U.S. Senate

A historian is writing an article for a history website. The article is divided into the following topics:

Which era is U.S. history is he referring to?

• The Jacksonian Era

• The Antebellum Era

• The Federalist Era

• The Reconstruction Era

Match the following

• Jacksonian Democracy

• Civil War U.S. President; against secession, wanted to preserve the Union

• Reasons for Exploration

• Democratic Party; voting increases; favored commoner–not the wealthy

• Unalienable Rights

• Rights all people have from birth: life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness; Declaration of Independence

• A

• Wealth, religion, new trade routes to Asia through Northwest Passage

Match the following

• 15th Amendment

• Permanently abolished the practice of slavery

• 14th Amendment

• Granted African American men the right to vote

• 13th Amendment

• Provided citizenship to people born in the U.S. and guaranteed all citizens equal protection

How did the South respond to the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment?

• By forcing African Americans to work as sharecroppers

• By shutting down border crossings between states

• By making it difficult for African American men to vote

• By establishing segregated p

This painting of a Missouri scene was completed in 1852. Such scenes would look dramatically different after the -

• ratification of the 15th Amendment

• Second Great Awakening

• emergence of Manifest Destiny

• Expansi

After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to -

• punish plantation owner for the use of slavery

• support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South

• promote the activities of the Freedmen’s Bureau

• limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment